Five adults from Regina and two youth, aged 16 and 17, were arrested in Saskatoon. The teens will be tried separately but the adults as one case.

“Unless something else occurs procedurally, as of this moment, it will be one case going through the court system,” explained Crown Prosecutor Maura Landry outside of court. “Coordinating six lawyers’ schedules is going to be the nightmare in this file.”

Regina Police tell Global News investigators believe the murder was not random and that the victim and those accused knew each other.

Five of the seven suspects are back in court August 18, while the other two will be back in two weeks. They have all been remanded into custody and have been ordered to not communicate with each other.